#African

YourWullie

YourWullie

The Caribbean Immigrants who transformed Britain. .Invited here by the UK goverment to help rebuild the economy after WW2, the Windrush generation brought much more to the UK than just

Iseult

iseult

My great grandmother Maud Gonne was English, the daughter of a Captain of the British Army. She adopted Ireland as her home country and was an activist for people's rights

Small History NS

smallhistory

Hi! I've been meaning to do this for a while. A thread about 19th-century Nova Scotian newspapers and what @smallhistory is about. I'm a historian and this account grew out

Cazorla Harbey

CazorlaHarbey

Birthday boy @fireboydml RECORDS and ACHIEVEMENTS.•.The first and only African act to have two albums surpass 30M-stream on Boomplay•.Most streamed debut album in Afrobeat history• The only Nigeria Artiste to

Rachel Glickhouse

Riogringa

I can't stop thinking about how predictable this week's events were and how little the people in power did to stop it or prepare for it. They knew. There was

Katie Herzog

kittypurrzog

I got surprisingly little pushback from my piece in Andrew Sullivan's newsletter from a few weeks ago. I really thought this one was going to explode some heads but every

manu

manuknowIes

”what did Beyoncé do this year?” okay, y’all asked for it. A THREAD: • Beyoncé launched in january the first line of her new collection from the Ivy Park collaboration

Fadi Quran

fadiquran

A personal story about @btselem's findings on Israel being an #apartheid state: 12 years ago, as a young college student, I spent 6 months gathering evidence, travelling across #Palestine, documenting

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JiixBooks

Who is Assia Djebar? - ThreadShe was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in 1936 in Cherchell (close to Alger) to amazighi parents from Kabyle. Through her fathers teaching job she was able

Prof Nic Cheeseman

Fromagehomme

The world holds its breath as voters go to the polls in a deeply divided country. Political violence seems more likely than not due to pronounced ethnic divisions and irresponsible

Wambui K. Collymore

WambuiKamiru

Had a bit of fun with Kenyan history and culture over there on IG. A thread: *Entomology thank you. Folks gave me things they know about Kenya and I

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lizburgh

Justice Dem email: 11/27/2020I don't usually do full breakdowns of each one, but this emails contains SO MANY LIESI have to correct them & nip this in the bud, because

Amandalynne Paullada

amandalynneP

I'm grateful to @ResistanceAI for the opportunity to present some notes from a work in progress in which I consider the question: how does machine translation shift power? Some thoughts

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

The Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium, regarded mostly as the cruelest man in historyA THREAD King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn

SaraHirschhorn1

THREAD: I've said it before & I'll say it again:We do a massive disservice to the unique historical experiences of both black South Africans & Palestinians to make this solipsistic

Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the

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